Kleist, Education and Violence

Dr Seán Allan from the department of German Studies along with Professor Ricarda Schmidt & Dr Steven Howe, University of Exeter present this podcast series on Heinrich von Kleist. Kleist (1777-1811) is one of the most important German writers of the early nineteenth century, and his works have had a profound influence on subsequent writers both in Germany and beyond. A three-year project – funded by the Arts and Humanties Research Council – explores one aspect of his work (education) that has been almost totally ignored, and links it to another (the representation of violence) in a way that will shed new light on constructive and destructive functions of violence in his work.